Bill Text: NY A01266 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of environmental conservation to establish rules and regulations to reduce significantly high levels of global warming emissions; sets stages for such reductions; establishes a mandatory reporting system to track and monitor such levels.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to environmental conservation [A01266 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01266-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1266
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, GALEF, JAFFEE, LUPARDO, WRIGHT, MAYERSOHN,
         CLARK,  BOYLAND,  LAVINE,  LATIMER,  COLTON, SCHIMEL, CASTRO -- Multi-
         Sponsored by -- M. of  A.    BRENNAN,  BROOK-KRASNY,  JACOBS,  LIFTON,
         MARKEY,  McDONOUGH, MILLMAN, REILLY, ROSENTHAL, SWEENEY, TITUS, TOWNS,
         WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental
         Conservation
       AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
         reducing global warming emissions levels
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Legislative findings.  The  legislature  hereby  finds  and
    2  declares it necessary to join the worldwide fight against global warming
    3  and  its  detrimental  impact on the public health, environment, and the
    4  economy of New York state. The legislature  finds  that  global  warming
    5  threatens  New  York  state's  environment and economic security through
    6  projected changes in temperature, precipitation  and  sea  level.  These
    7  changes  harm natural ecosystems, threaten industries including agricul-
    8  ture, forestry, fishing and tourism, and harm the health of New Yorkers.
    9  The legislature finds it necessary to implement a statewide cap on emis-
   10  sions levels and in effectively  doing  so,  to  implement  a  mandatory
   11  reporting system to track and monitor global warming emissions levels.
   12    S  2.  The  environmental  conservation law is amended by adding a new
   13  section 19-0312 to read as follows:
   14  S 19-0312. REDUCTIONS IN GLOBAL WARMING EMISSIONS.
   15    1. NO LATER THAN JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWELVE, THE  COMMISSIONER
   16  SHALL   PROMULGATE   RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  IMPLEMENTING  A  STATEWIDE
   17  REDUCTION IN GLOBAL WARMING EMISSIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE  PROVISIONS
   18  OF  THIS SECTION. SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS SHALL SET PERMANENT CAPS ON
   19  LEVELS OF TOTAL GLOBAL WARMING EMISSIONS, WHICH FOR ALL SOURCES  SUBJECT
   20  TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE AS FOLLOWS:
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03666-01-1
       A. 1266                             2
    1    (A)  AS  OF  JANUARY  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND FIFTEEN, A FIFTEEN PERCENT
    2  REDUCTION IN TOTAL EMISSIONS;
    3    (B)  AS  OF  JANUARY  FIRST,  TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN, A TWENTY PERCENT
    4  REDUCTION IN TOTAL EMISSIONS;
    5    (C) BY TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO, A  TWENTY-FIVE  PERCENT  REDUCTION  IN
    6  TOTAL  EMISSIONS, AT WHICH SUCH LEVEL OF EMISSIONS SHALL BE NO MORE THAN
    7  THE TOTAL EMISSIONS LEVEL IN NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY; AND
    8    (D) BY TWO THOUSAND FIFTY-TWO, AN EIGHTY PERCENT  REDUCTION  IN  TOTAL
    9  EMISSIONS  AT  WHICH  SUCH  LEVEL OF EMISSIONS SHALL BE NO MORE THAN THE
   10  TOTAL EMISSIONS LEVEL IN NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY.
   11    2. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH A  STATEWIDE  MANDATORY  REPORTING
   12  SYSTEM  TO  TRACK  AND MONITOR GLOBAL WARMING EMISSIONS LEVELS AND SHALL
   13  FORMULATE A PLAN BY WHICH NEW YORK STATE BUSINESS SHALL UNIFORMLY  ADAPT
   14  AND COMPLY WITH THE RULES AND REGULATIONS REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION.
   15    3.  NOTHING  IN  THIS  SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO CONFLICT WITH ANY
   16  OTHER EXISTING PROVISION OF LAW RELATING TO ANY  MEASURES  OR  PRACTICES
   17  TAKEN  TO RESTRICT, REDUCE OR LIMIT ANY EMISSIONS FOUND TO CONTRIBUTE TO
   18  GLOBAL WARMING AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED TO  SUPERSEDE  MORE  STRINGENT
   19  EMISSION  LIMITATIONS  OR  PRACTICES APPLICABLE ON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF
   20  THIS SECTION OR MAY BECOME APPLICABLE AFTER SUCH EFFECTIVE DATE.
   21    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.